LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) have decided to give a tough time to the PML-N-led coalition government during the passage of the Punjab budget today, ARY NEWS reported.
It was decided during a meeting of the parliamentary party headed by MPA Sibtain Khan that the opposition parties will lodge a strong protest during the tabling of the Punjab budget.
“We will respond to the government’s failure during the assembly session,” another PTI lawmaker Fayaz ul Hasan Chohan said.
Punjab budget
Provincial minister Awais Leghari will present Punjab’s budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 today (Monday) with a total outlay of around Rs 3 trillion.
Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz has summoned a special session of his cabinet ahead of the budget. The special meeting of the Punjab cabinet will approve budget proposals for the upcoming fiscal year. The cabinet meeting will also give its nod to the revised budget estimates.
Provincial ministers, advisors, special assistants, chief secretary and concerned secretaries will attend the session.
According to sources, no new tax will be imposed in the budget while existing special concessions and incentives will continue.
It has been proposed to hike government employees’ salaries by 15 per cent and pensions by 5 per cent for the next fiscal year, according to budgetary proposals.
Moreover, Rs683.5bn had been proposed for development schemes, Rs56 billion for education sector, Rs173 billion for the health sector and 11.95bn will be given to the ‘Saaf Pani’ project.
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